The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-08

States evidence May 81 and Jake Sharp was
arrested Oct 10 for the wholesale bribing OF
the broadway road, was also arrested.
Mar. ia-Thc Illinois supreme Court refused
arehcaring IN the case OF Joseph c. Macltn the
Mar. g-sam Archer. the last OF the notori.
Gus "Archcr Gang" found guilty OF murder, and
executed ut Shoals, Ind, July o.
Apr 1-At Hcnrictta, TEX, Valentine Sam
ford, aged fourteen found guilty Of the murder
OF his mother, and sentenced to life mprison-
Apr. 2s-Johann Most. the New York Anarch-
ist leader, indicted. and arrested IN an house of
Ill rcputc May y. On June sentenced to one
years term In Sing Sing and to pay fine OF
Apr. @-Arrcst in New York Of George Ed
wards, the noted forRcr.
named shcdd murdered his wife, and then
killed himself near F'ekonsha, Mich.
May 4-Throwing of the dynamite-bo into
the ranks of three hundred Chicago policeman,
who had formed to suppress . socialistic gath
ering at the West Side IIaymarkct. One
policeman instantly killed and iorty,sis
and large number wounded, by the return
fire. The following day August and Christ
were held for the murder OF Policeman Degan.
May lO-Norman Lounsbury, aged seventy.
eight in fit OF insanity, killed his sixteen year
old wife and one OF his nephews and then shot
himself dead, on II farm near Oswego, N. w..
Hugh NJ. Brooks. alias Maxwell, placed on trial
at 81. Louis for murder OF G. a. prcller,
lO-FTuIlk tuy, OnC Vi tIlc euulflg INV
yers OF Atlanta, Georgia, murdered by Marshall
Jones, while disputing over d COW.
May lS-Believing that God had called upon
her to make sacrifice, an insane widow named
Donnan. living in Lincoln County, West Va,
cut the throats of her three little daughters and
then killed herself.
June O-At Stanford. VT, Mrs. William Sloane
drowned her four year old son to spite her hus-
band, who became insane.
June ai-Work of empnnnellng jury in Chi
ago Anarchists cases, in the criminal court
(Judge Gary, begun. A. X. Parsons, who had
pcon in hiding, appeared for trial. Jury OBJ
tained on July 10, trial commenced the next day.
and on August % Spies, Fielden, Fischer.
Lingg Parsons, Schwab and Engel were found
guilty OF the murder OF Policeman Degan and
sentenced to be hanged December B. Oscar
Neebe sentenced to fifteen years Imprisonment.
Motion for a new trial overrulcd by Judge Gary
October7 Judge Scott, OF the State Supreme
New Esrand institute e FAIR ylro Boston, burned by
discharged employees. Many lives lost and prop
erty worth $3.50, 600 destroyed.
June I-Four men at Parsons, Kan, found
guilty Of conspiracy during the southwestern
railway strike.
July a-Post-office at Minneapolis, Mimi,
robbed of $4,000
July 16-James Dacey hanged at Woodstock,
ILL.,, for murder of Alderman Gaynor, of Chicago.
July T-Charles Engel, one Of the most daring
burglars In the country. captured by Chicago de-
tectlves, and sent TO Newport r. /.
Aug. 5-Alfred Packer, miner OF Colorado,
accused Of numbering and eating five human
Aug la-Mrs. sarah Robinson, OF Boston,
arrested, charged with poisoning eleven mem
bers Of her family.
dered his father, mother, sister and brother,
sentenced to imprisonment for life.
Sept. lb-Residence Of Thomas Lowry, one of
the wealthiest citizens of Minneapolis, robbed
to extent of $4,000.
Oct. 4-Willinm J: Gallagher notorious in
connection with Chicago election frauds,
arrested for forging county treasurer's name to
special assessment receipt.
Dot. 7-President pardons three Mormon
Bishops, sentenced to three years imprison-
Oct. Ss.Aa sSMA9 express -, car on San Francisco
quentiy arrested for the Crime. % He 's was found
bound and gagged and claimed that he had
been robbed by Jim Cummings" the last of
Nov. 1S-John Arensdorf, the brewer, indicted
for murder OF Rev. George G. Haddock, ut Sioux
City.
Dec. 7-Proceedings for conspiracy begun in
courts against election forgers at Indianapolis.
Dec. 9-Gang of four men and two women,
counterfeitcrs Of niclSels. arrested ut Cairo H..
been robbed Of s1OO,O 900 annually by combina-
tion Of servants with tradesmen. Arrest of
Trenton M ~ aldermen, on charges OF bribery;
convicted on his second trial, fined
5000 and sentenced to seven yeors' imprison-
Dec. 1e-society of negroes discovered in
York County. s. c., whose objects were robbery
and theft and the murder Of those who opposed
them; two murders already traced to them;
Dec. IA man named Sanders burned to
death near Gainesville, Ca, for decapitating
John Swilling, his wife and three children and
firing the promises, that he might obtain forty |
dollars in the house.
Dec a.-A family feud Of fifty years standing |
ended at dance in Indian Territory by Sam |
Star and Ben Foreman, two notorious despera- |
does, shooting each other dead
Dec A-"Jim" Cummings and two other men |
arrested In Chicago for the Adams express rob- |
cry on the St. Louis & San Francisco road, for |
which crime Messenger Fotheringham had pre- |
viously been arrested. james Embree, Mem |
phis, Tenn, killed Georgia Bissin, and then |
himself; cause jealousy 80. While insane Mrs. |
Druger, near Rushville, Neb., killed her three |
children and then herself. |